PC World - USA (2019-08)

104 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

FEATURE THE BEST PC GAMES OF 2019 (SO FAR)

arcane-looking phrases like “Flag Is Win” and

“Water Is Hot” and the titular “Baba Is You.”

Your task is to push these blocks around,

redefining the very rules of the puzzle in your

favor. Stuck behind a wall? Well, maybe you

should become the wall—or rather, Wall Is You.

Of course, the difficulty escalates.

Immutable rules, either placed outside your

reach or tucked into corners where they can’t be

manipulated, force you to get creative with your

solutions, creating long chains of cause and

effect where Crab Is You and You Are Melt and

Water Is...nothing? Oh,now I can get across

that river. And so on and so forth. Baba Is You is

smart, it’s addictive, and I’ve derived the utmost

satisfaction from its “Eureka!” moments.

RESIDENT EVIL 2

TRAILER: GO.PCWORLD.COM/RE2

Resident Evil 2 (go.pcworld.com/rev2) is the

Resident Evil that finally made me a fan—and I

don’t mean the 1998 original, I mean the

remake this year. After years of trying and

ow, look at the time! I think

I say this every year, but I

can’t believe we’re halfway

through 2019 already. And

it’s been a busy 2019 as well. This list of the

best games of the year so far is already so

strong, it feels like a proper end-of-2019

Game of the Year list. Hell, I had to cut some

perfectly deserving games because we ran

out of space. Did I mention this is only the

middle of the year?

And it’s only going to get worse from here,

with high-profile releases like Doom Eternal and

Control still to come in 2019. And then 2020’s

spring gauntlet of Cyberpunk 2077 (go.pcworld.

com/2077), Dying Light 2 (go.pcworld.com/

dl2), Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2

(go.pcworld.com/vmb), Watch Dogs Legion (go.

pcworld.com/wdl), and on and on.

Good years ahead. But before we get there,

let’s take a moment to recount the best games

of 2019 so far—maybe some you played, and

probably at least a few you haven’t gotten

around to yet. (Note: This list is in

no particular order, except the

final entry.)

BABA IS YOU

TRAILER: GO.PCWORLD.COM/BABA

Baba Is You is a fiendish puzzler

with simple rules. So simple, in

fact, they’re laid out for you to

see. Every puzzle consists of a

series of text blocks, Baba Is You